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Egretta vinaceigula (Slaty Egret)

Wikipedia Abstract

The slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula) is a small, dark egret. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. It is classified as Vulnerable, the biggest threat being habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Egretta vinaceigula

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Egretta vinaceigula

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
45
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.83437
EDGE Score: 3.67218
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  288 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  90 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [3]  22 days

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian coastal flooded savanna Mozambique Afrotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Zambezian flooded grasslands Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia Afrotropic Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mamili National Park II 83904 Namibia  
Nylsvley Nature Reserve IV 7698 Limpopo, South Africa
Okavango Delta System Wetland of International Importance 13683213 North-West, Botswana  
West Caprivi Game Reserve Game Park VI 1448182 Namibia  
West Zambezi Game Management Area 9407302 Zambia      

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Dowsett, R.J. 1981. Breeding and other observations on the Slaty Egret Egretta vinaceigula. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 101: 323–327
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0